Sweden Star Armand Duplantis Copies Yusuf Dikec After Paul Vault World Record, Shooter Reacts

Sweden's Armand Duplantis bettered his own world record as he grabbed the Paris Olympics pole vault title in on Monday. In a sensational finish to the fifth day of track and field at the Stade de France, Duplantis sailed over the bar raised to 6.25 meters to make the gold medal his own. The effort received rapturous applause from a 69,000-capacity crowd as the Swedish star bettered the 'world record' by 1cm his own previous best of 6.24m set at the Xiamen Diamond League meet in April. What Duplantis did after clinching the gold, however, went viral on social media. 

Duplantis copied the shooting pose of Turkey's Yusuf Dikec, the shooter who went viral on social media after he 'casually' clinched a silver medal in the Paris Games. Dikec himself also took to social media to congratulate Duplantis after the pole vaulter's historic gold.

Congratulations Duplantis pic.twitter.com/VgtsuBC43L

Celebration unmatched #Paris2024 #Olympics pic.twitter.com/ThuJvNzlO4

Remarkably it was the ninth time the US-born Swede had broken the record.

In the competition before the procession, American Sam Kendricks won silver with a best of 5.95m, Greece's Emmanouil Karalis taking bronze (5.90) on countback.

The gold meant Duplantis became the first man to retain the pole vault title since American Bob Richards in 1952 and 1956.

um estadio todo de 80 mil pessoas torcendo pra presenciar a historia

s 1 prova acontecendo

so 1 atleta competindo

Armand Duplantis e o salto mais alto da historia da humanidade: 6.25m pic.twitter.com/tI8KI3JMiq

It had been, he said, an "out-of-body experience".

"What can I say? I just broke a world record at the Olympics, the biggest possible stage for a pole vaulter," said Duplantis.

"The biggest dream since a kid was to